Tilda Swinton Inspired Coco Rocha to Cut Off Her Hair

Arizona Muse says it is merely coincidence that she was chosen as the face of Modern Muse, a new fragrance from Estée Lauder. “They were planning and designing the idea, and then I joined them, and it just was all a lucky coincidence,” the model said at the perfume’s launch party at the Guggenheim on Thursday.

Other than her family, Muse is inspired by actresses Keira Knightley and Angelina Jolie. “I just think they’re such beautiful women, and I love their films,” she said. And yes, she is contemplating trying her hand at acting. “I’m taking courses. I love it; it’s so much fun,” she told VF Daily.

Tao Okamoto, another model who has already made that leap in a big way, starring opposite Hugh Jackman in this summer’s The Wolverine, was with Phillip Lim at the party. Her pretty floral frock was topped with a leather motorcycle jacket. “It was funny, it was just out of my closet,” Lim explained of the jacket. “Literally, this is a dress in another color from the spring runway, and this is my own vintage jacket that I pulled out of the closet because it started to pour. So I said, Let’s bring something, just to be a gentleman.” The designer was happy with the unlikely combination. “I love it,” he said. “You know, it’s spontaneous; it’s kind of classic and modern.”

Taking in a performance by the Dolls under the James Turrell installation in the Guggenheim rotunda were Linda Evangelista, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, Hailee Steinfeld, Savannah Guthrie, Iman, Julianne Hough, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Drew Barrymore came from Marc Jacobs’s runway show, managing to change into a different dress on the way.

Also in attendance was Coco Rocha, who admitted that she too is inspired by a particular actress. Tilda Swinton helped her take a risk at trying a new, short hairstyle. “Because she seemed like the sort of woman that could give a lot of looks, and with my job, I need to give a lot of looks,” Rocha explained. “Short hair, for some reason in our industry everyone gets nervous when a model does that, because it means she only has one look. Tilda, I thought, could really change things up. She can be boyish, she can be feminine, she can be sexy, she can be cute.”